Edwin J Ross (54 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Crease on cover*.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780192631688.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780192631688.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better lot of seven original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better lot of seven original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better lot of seven original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Health Through Natural Methods. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better complete set of eight original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better complete set of eight original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better complete set of eight original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A VG or better complete set of eight original release 11 x 14 lobby cards. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. Kenneth Tynan "American Blues" / Arthur Koestler "Attila, The Poet" / D J Enright "From A Japanese University" / Herbert Luthy "Democracy And Its Discontents II.France" / Alan Ross "Arctic Waking" (poem) / Nathan Glazer "Foreign Policy and the American People" / Edwin Muir "Dresden, Helleran, and Vienna - A Memoir" / William Plomer "Atheling Grange" (poem) / Alan Clutton-Brock "Art: Fleet Street's Portrait of the Artist".…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. © 1983 by The Mathematical Association o. 263 + xii + pp. Vol. or No. 7 issue only! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. …

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. New York, NY: The American Health Association, 1925, Hardcover, 8vo., 189pp. Soiling to cover boards, firm binding, no ownership markings. A scarce copy on the early American natural health movement with illustrations. Focuses on common medical issues with contemporary advertisements on rear end-pages.…